SiliconClassics wrote:Picked this up from Craigslist last weekend - it's an HP xw8400 workstation from 2007. Came with 16GB ECC memory (32GB max) and I've upgraded the processors to dual 3GHz Xeon x5365 for a total of 8 cores. It has onboard SATA, SAS, FireWire, IDE, and even has 9-pin serial, parallel, and floppy drive connectors on the motherboard, which makes it a nice system for interfacing with retro kit. I've installed a U320 SCSI card and my old Quadro FX 5500.

Nice machine, some years ago I purchased its - let's say - "brother" machine with AMD processors, an xw9400 which I upgraded to two Opteron 8393 quad cores (2393s weren't available when I searched) running at 3.1 GHz (air-cooled). I have installed a GeForce GTX 560 TI and originally built it to be able to play Assassin's Creed IV, but it's fast enough to even play Fallout 4 - although with reduced texture resolution and quality. Still good enough for my demands and best thing: it features both PCIe and PCI-X ports and both SATA and SAS ports so also useful as server.

They were very expensive. Total I spent about $900 on the collection. This doesn't include the actual purchase prices, more what my net costs were. And I have more stuff to sell (an A1000 keyboard I don't need - Amiga keyboards suck compared to a buckling spring, another GVP card, some kickstart roms etc.) and some more things to buy (Accelerators, a CPU card for the A4000, spare parts etc.)